Biographies of USSR / Russian Cosmonauts
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Valeri Viktorovich |
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Personal data
| Birthdate: | 16.08.1939 |
| Birthplace: | Komsomolsk-na-Amurye, Khabarovsk Kray, Russian SFSR |
| Marital status: | married |
| Children: | three |
| Selection date: | 27.03.1973 |
| Selection group: | TsKBEM-3 |
| Position: | Test Cosmonaut (TC) |
| Status: | Ret. 02.06.1998 |
| Date of death: | 06.06.2022 |
| Place of death: | Moscow, Russian Federation |
Spaceflights
| No. | Mission | Position | Time | Duration |
| 1 | Soyuz 25 | Flight Engineer | 09.10. - 11.10.1977 | 2d 00h 44m |
| 2 | Soyuz 32 / Soyuz 34 | Flight Engineer | 25.02. - 19.08.1979 | 175d 00h 35m |
| 3 | Soyuz 35 / Soyuz 37 | Flight Engineer | 09.04. - 11.10.1980 | 184d 20h 11m |
| 4 | STS-91 Discovery | MS | 02.06. - 12.06.1998 | 9d 19h 54m |
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| Total | 371d 17h 24m | |||
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Backup assignments
| No. | Mission | Position |
| 1 | Soyuz 29 | Flight Engineer |
Additional information
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Graduated from Kaliningrad Mechanical
Engineering Technical College, 1958; graduated from the Department of
Electronics and Computing Technology of the Moscow Forestry Engineering
Institute (especially in Spacecraft Control Systems), 1966; candidate of
technical sciences degree, 1980; was selected as cosmonaut on 27.03.1973 (TsKBEM-3); Deputy Director,
NPOE; from 1981 to 1989 he was flight director for the
Salyut 7 space station and the
MIR space station; divorced and subsequently remarried
to cosmonaut Yelena
Kondakova; retired on 28.10.1987; hobbies:
Tennis, hunting, angling, walking through forests, travel; reactivated for the
STS-91 mission;
in 1998 he became director of the Russian part within the
MKS program. |
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